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Along with Director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center Ronald Cohen, graduate students Virginia Teige and Katja Weichsel are building and installing Oakland’s first carbon dioxide sensor network across the city, already streaming the data from nine locations hourly to the web.Read More…

Imprint Energy, a new start-up founded by campus graduates Christine Ho and Brooks Kincaid, has created printable batteries through a process called “screen printing” — the same type of industrial printing which is used to print t-shirts or other high volume materialsRead More…

The city of San Jose and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently formed a partnership that will help pave the road for the commercialization and adoption of clean technologies by other California cities hoping to overcome energy and environmental challenges in their local communities. The new partnership will bring together BerkeleyRead More…

Nine out of 10 Californians under the age of 65 will receive health coverage by 2019 with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, informally known as Obamacare, according to a study by the UC Berkeley Labor Center and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Researchers from the centersRead More…

A group of 22 researchers from around the world are warning of imminent and irreversible changes to the Earth’s biosphere resulting from a combination of human population growth, mass consumption and extensive environmental destruction. The researchers’ report, published Thursday in “Nature” magazine, was headed by Anthony Barnosky, professor of integrativeRead More…

In a recently-published study co-authored by a UC Berkeley Haas School of Business professor, statistical research methods widely used by researchers were proven instead sometimes to yield false results. In the study, Leif Nelson and researchers Joseph Simmons and Uri Simonsohn from the Wharton School of Business ran a testRead More…